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Google Caught AI Faking Creativity in Every Office in America [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_O6Lwj1yjQ
12•Bender•1h ago

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Oarch•53m ago
I'm not sure the vast majority of office tasks require much creativity at all.

True creativity is the preserve of our finest creatives at their very best. And it's hard to catch lightning in a bottle and summon it on demand.

atomicfiredoll•25m ago
Direct link to the study, StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction arxiv, abstract[0] and the PDF[1].

- [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03136

- [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.03136

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
394•satvikpendem•5h ago•182 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

44•david927•1h ago•137 comments

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

https://openchamber.dev/
27•hexomancer•1h ago•9 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
75•Klaster_1•4h ago•12 comments

Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon

https://frequal.com/aptera/ProductionImminent.html
30•TeaVMFan•1h ago•21 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
74•Kiboneu•5h ago•28 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32
79•Rochus•6h ago•16 comments

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them
22•eighttrigrams•3h ago•1 comments

Crickets as Pets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crickets_as_pets
28•Michelangelo11•4d ago•12 comments

Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981
139•iamnothere•3h ago•59 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
156•gukoff•11h ago•23 comments

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/
30•shayonj•3h ago•13 comments

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/fcc-moves-to-ban-lidar-equipped-foreign-drones-...
53•f-serif•2h ago•29 comments

Show HN: A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions

https://github.com/nMaroulis/protolink/tree/main/examples/ai_courtroom
7•nmaroulis21•1h ago•0 comments

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/
111•Thorondor•3h ago•34 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
142•BruceEel•13h ago•60 comments

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/a-partial-digestion-of-the-hrt-counterexample/
15•ijustlovemath•4h ago•2 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spa...
58•jader201•3h ago•43 comments

Literary Sins

https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/seven-literary-sins
11•lermontov•3d ago•1 comments

An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power

https://ai-updates.net/an-openai-strategist-says-ai-labs-should-rival-government-power/
15•ashurandi•2h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future

https://douwe.com/projects/tectonic_globe
19•dosinga•4h ago•3 comments

Cross-Compilation with Wails

https://chriswheeler.dev/posts/cross-compilation-with-wails/
3•auraham•3d ago•0 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
62•Lammy•8h ago•43 comments

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-read...
168•evo_9•3h ago•125 comments

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/4/the-grid-that-doubles-the-strength-of-the-ground
109•michaefe•4d ago•31 comments

UnYOLO: Agent credential broker and policy engine for your GitHub account

https://unyolo.io/
5•hosolmaz•2h ago•0 comments

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364...
150•akyuu•3h ago•128 comments

If experience is the goal, then you always win

https://www.startingfromnix.com/p/if-experience-is-the-goal-then-you
3•jger15•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

https://airy.so
28•login588•9h ago•14 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
464•seg6•20h ago•226 comments